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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I blame the fact that Dell first moved their production from Ireland to Poland, and then from Poland to China. I hate the fact that Lenovo bought the IBM Thinkpad line... and that brand is in China as well. The current T and W-type laptops are nothing compared to the old Thinkpad T and W's.=
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Where it's produced isn't the problem. The Chinese are quite capable of quality manufacture.
But PCs have long since become commodities with commodity pricing. They are fungible, and it largely doesn't
matter whose name is on the box. As long as the specs are equivalent, one will be as good as another, and purchase decision tends to come down to price, with Lowest Cost Producer winning.
Vendors are all looking for ways to shave costs, and keyboards that don't stand up to really heavy use are examples. They're cheaper.
IBM made the first PCs, but sold the PC division to Lenovo when they were losing money on it. They
couldn't be Lowest Cost Producer. HP under its previous CEO announced plans to end PC production because they were losing money at it. . The market did not react well, and current CEO Meg Whitman reversed the decision. Dell went private in a leveraged buyout when they couldn't produce the revenues and profits the stock market wanted, and had already shifted production to China. In the PC business, you will make pennies on the dollar if you are lucky, and the goal is to take in as many dollars as possible to make pennies on.
We want it cheap. You get what you pay for.
What you're describing is one reason why my main system is a desktop with separate keyboard and monitor.
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Dennis